"Gannon-gate" on MSNBC NOW

[Cannikin]

4:24 CST

[Shredr]

1. I'm at work and can't watch

What are they saying?

[BR_Parkway]

2. First comment off the mark - Bush can't start screening reporters - I

guess KKKarl found some focus group that it played well to and now everyone has the message to drum out.

[ima_sinnic]

5. yeah, right. so who DOES screen reporters?

it just magically "happens"?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. That's too easy to turn back on them.

Reporters have to be legitimate. If not you would have interest groups sending people in to address their agenda. It's a standard they've used for decades. This will only appease someone who doesn't bother to look closer.

[tsuki]

9. I wonder if Maureen Dowd is listening?

[BrendaStarr]

17. They screened Maureen Dowd for over 2.5 years.

So they are just liars!

[Cannikin]

3. Rep Slaughter is laying all out

Said he was in the WH before Talon ever came along. His credentials were denied but he was still let in..etc

[hnsez]

4. DU THIS POLL ON GANNON

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6862172/#survey

[machiado]

8. They changed the poll wording but not the numbers of replies

in the Howard Dean question. Earlier today, the question was "do you want to know more about Howard Dean's call for the NY RNC chairman to resign?".

Now it says "Do you want to know more about Howard Dean?"

Everyone who answered "yes" to the earlier question will now be down as wanting to hear the Dean scream over and over.

[rumpel]

11. done 90% want to know more

[Corgigal]

7. White House doesn't screen reporters

it clears reporters. These guys just don't want to take the responsibility for cleaning Jeff/Jim in the press poll.

[Corgigal]

10. thanks

new buzz word for the GOP: Screen reporters.


Change it to cleared reporters.

GOOD try GOP. Got ya.

[DearAbby]

13. I keep wondering...was mentioned in another thread

Those that were in the White House Press corps, should have been interested in keeping their own on the up and up...why wasn't there an outcry when this happened? They had to have known this Yawhoo was phony as a 3 dollar bill. Why didn't they use that as a story? Why don't they do it now? They have in affect demoted themselves by their silence on the topic.

They should be reporting this to save their own prestigious standing as White House reporters, they are now in affect by association tainted.

[HootieMcBoob]

12. Did I just hear what I think I heard?

Did Rep. Slaughter just say she prefers a "good hard reporter"? LOL
I bet she wishes she hadn's said that :)

That other guy and Monica Crowley are just plain stupid.

[BR_Parkway]

14. Now they are going to tell us how to find a good blog - ROFLMAO

I found blogs because I couldn't find a good news show!!!

[Vinca]

18. I think Bulldog might agree with that statement!

(The one about the good, hard reporter.)

[RBHam]

15. Monica Crowley displaying her right wing bias BIG TIME

Can't even hide it...colluding with the Republican to paint this as a "non-story"...

Holy Crap!

Reagan's eyebrows will be permanently set to "incredulous"...

[Vinca]

16. The White House better check and be sure there are no

press passes issued to anyone going by "Osama."